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Natural Therapy as Integral Technology of Social and Physical Rehabilitation
Full text linkThe concept of natural therapy is a product of the evolution of social work theories. The ecological model of social work was formed in the 60s of the twentieth century and assumed the inclusion of an ecological context in the social sphere and social work as a practical activity. In the 21st century, environmental methods of social work have changed the focus and social rehabilitation has become a priority using such environmental technologies as animal therapy, garden therapy, agrotherapy, aesthetic therapy, and so on. The article examines the Ukrainian national experience in the development of social and physical rehabilitation of various categories of the population using environmental technologies. One of the main features of the formation of national experience of the concept of natural therapy is that today the use of its components is at the initial level. The technologies for animal-assisted therapy are somewhat better developed in comparison with agrotherapy and garden therapy. The combination of these technologies into a single rehabilitation complex makes it possible to use the advantages of each of these technologies (animal therapy, agrotherapy and garden therapy) to achieve the maximum rehabilitation effect for each client, which requires social and physical rehabilitation
Graduates’ Assessment on the Services Provided by Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Open University System
Full text linkThis study was made to determine the satisfaction of graduates of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Open University System to its services for academic year 2016-2017. Descriptive method was used in the study. The study found out that the PUP Open University graduates A.Y. 2016-2017 are very satisfied on the services offered and provided by PUP Open University System
Psychological Wellbeing, Job Burnout and Counter Productive Work Behavior among Drivers of Car Hailing Services in Pakistan: Moderating Role of Captains’ Personality Traits
Full text linkThe present study aims to examine the relationship among psychological wellbeing, job burnout and counterproductive work behavior. Moreover, this study focuses on identifying the moderating role of personality traits among job burnout & counterproductive work behavior. 251 captains from Uber, Careem and Swvl services participated in the research using valid and reliable measures administered via google forms. Based on correlation analysis, the results point towards a positive significant influence of burnout on captain’s counterproductive work behavior. Further results suggest that there is a significant negative correlation of psychological wellbeing with job burnout and counterproductive work behavior. The moderation model generated by SPSS using Hayes Process revealed that extraversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness act as a strong moderator between counterproductive work behavior and job burnout. This study contributes to psychology and organizational behavior literature suggesting that burnout is a contributing factor in shaping individual’s behavior at work. This research also helps driving authorities to recognize that their captain’s psychological wellbeing is extremely important to enhance their overall performance. It is recommended that organizations should arrange counselling and evaluation sessions for the drivers of car hailing services so that they will experience minimal burnout and will show productive work behavior during their duty hours.
Eco-trophic Relationships and Frequency of Occurrence of Mycobiota of Some Trees grown on the Roadside: the Case of Baku Highways
Full text linkThe current study is devoted to eco-trophic relationships and frequency of occurrence of fungal species involved in the formation of tree mycobiota along the highway. As a result, it was possible to determine the possibility of using determined indicators of tree mycobiota in assessing the environmental status of the area near the highway. With this purpose rhizosphere and mycobiota of the leaves of such trees as Platanus orientalis, Populus nigra and Pinus eldarica growing at various distances (10-100 m) from Baku highways with different traffic intensity have been studied. The samples were taken for the period from 2016 to 2018. The sensitivity of fungi species to pollution from the influence of motor transport has been evaluated. It has been established that the structure of micromycete complex spread both in leaves and rhizosphere of trees growing on the roadside is disturbed by the effects of highway. Near the highway the decrease of species diversity of fungi and increase of the number of dark-colored mycelium fungi species have been observed. This, in turn, leads to the disturbance of the ecological functions of roadside ecosystems. The possibility of using such species as A.fumigatus, Botryotrichum piluliferum, P.cuslopium, P.funiclozum, St.chartarum as indicators has been determined
Development and Validation of General Mathematical Anxiety Scale
No full textThe aim of this study was to construct and validate a mathematical anxiety test. The test consists of total 18 likert type items with options ranging from Always, Often, Sometime, Rarely and Never. The preliminary instrument consisting of 24 likert type items was tested on 300 students. After the refinement of items using different procedures, only 18 items were selected. The construction and development of the test was done by expert review, preliminary draft, item analysis, selection of items, preparation of final test, norms, validity and reliability of the test. The Cronbach’s (α) and split-half reliability of the test as found 0.893 & 0.890 respectively. The intrinsic and criterion validity of the test was found to be 0.944 & 0.740 with satisfactory face, content, discriminant, convergent validity
Public speaking and Politeness in the Perspective of Political Communication: Reflection on Language and Politics
Full text linkHampir setiap politisi pandai berbicara dan pandai beretorika, namun banyak yang bermasalah dengan aspek kesantunan. Masalah ini perlu ditelaah secara mendalam dan ditanggapi secara serius, sebagai upaya untuk menciptakan politisi yang santun dan menciptakan politik yang damai. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah melakukan refleksi terhadap bahasa dan politik dengan mengkaji hakikat keterampilan berbicara, kesantunan berbahasa dalam perspektif komunikasi politik. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif. Data penelitian dikumpulkan dengan melakukan wawancara dengan 10 politisi. Melalui wawancara tersebut, peneliti mengidentifikasi masalah dan menganalisis kebutuhan politisi dalam upaya meningkatkan keterampilan berbicara di depan umum dan mengembangkan sikap bahasa dan kesantunan. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, diperoleh data bahwa banyak politisi besar yang berbicara di depan umum dari sudut pandang retoris, tetapi masih melakukan pelanggaran kesantunan berbahasa. Faktor utama yang menyebabkan hal tersebut terjadi adalah ketidakmampuan politisi untuk mengontrol emosinya ketika berada dalam suasana komunikasi yang tidak kondusif. Dari hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa dalam dunia politik tidak hanya dibutuhkan keterampilan retorika tetapi juga keterampilan berbahasa yang santun. Bahasa yang santun dapat digunakan sebagai strategi komunikasi politik untuk mendapatkan simpati masyarakat dan menciptakan suasana politik yang damai. Dari hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa dalam dunia politik tidak hanya dibutuhkan keterampilan retorika tetapi juga keterampilan berbahasa yang santun. Bahasa yang santun dapat digunakan sebagai strategi komunikasi politik untuk mendapatkan simpati masyarakat dan menciptakan suasana politik yang damai. Dari hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa dalam dunia politik tidak hanya dibutuhkan keterampilan retorika tetapi juga keterampilan berbahasa yang santun. Bahasa yang santun dapat digunakan sebagai strategi komunikasi politik untuk mendapatkan simpati masyarakat dan menciptakan suasana politik yang damai
What Should be Mastered by Elementary, Junior and Senior High School Teachers Related to the Concept of Evolution?
Full text linkContent knowledge is one of the competencies to be mastered by a teacher. Teachers who master content thoroughly and understand the limitations in teaching content to students at different levels are professionals. Online interviews were conducted, and questionnaires were distributed to 9 participants consisting of 3 elementary school teachers, 3 junior high school science teachers, and 3 senior high school biology teachers. This qualitative research aimed to investigate the depth of evolution content that must be mastered by teachers at every level of elementary, junior, and senior high schools. The answers from the participants were analyzed qualitatively using a grounded theory research design. It is known that the three kinds of teachers have different depths of the evolution material from one to the others. Elementary school teachers should master the concept of evolution in the form of signs of an evolutionary process that can be found by students in everyday life. In addition to being required to master elementary school materials, junior high school teachers should master the theories of evolution as well. For senior high school teachers, they are required to have a wider and deeper mastery of the material that includes the meaning, theories, clues, and mechanism of evolution
Heliotropium indicum L. and Heliotropium keralense Sivar. & Manilal, J.: DNA Barcoding Studies for Species Identity
Full text linkThe family Boraginaceae comprises around 2000 species within 145 genera with a myriad of therapeutic and pharmacological attributes. Kerala holds 26 species of Boraginaceae members coming under 9 genera. The genus Heliotropium comprises 8 species where Heliotropium indicum L. and Heliotropium keralense Sivar. & Manilal, J. is commonly found in Kerala. H. keralense is endemic to Kerala. Only minute morphological differences can be noticed between these two species. The present available data suggests the idea that only morphological characters are used to demarcate these two plants into two species. Hence an authentication is an immediate necessity for confirming the taxonomic identity of these plants. The present study aims to inspect whether these plants can be categorized into different species or not and DNA barcoding is used to clarify the dispute. Here, highly conserved regions of the genome, especially short stretches (~600 bp) are used to differentiate species-level taxonomy. The DNA barcode marker used in this technique is Rbcl and sequence analysis was performed using online tool BLAST of NCBI database and based on maximum identity score E value top most sequences was utilized for multiple sequence alignment (Clustal W2) and dendrogram was also constructed. The differences in DNA sequence and amino acid composition clearly specifies that Heliotropium indicum L. and Heliotropium keralense Sivar. & Manilal, J. can be categorized into two species
Investing in Women’s Health in Pakistan – Role of Mass Media: Positive or Negative?
Full text linkInvesting in women’s health is still an island in this huge sea of knowledge. Hence, this research intends to focus on role of mass media on Pakistani women’s wellbeing. The scoping review synthesized data from Pubmed and Google scholar databases reaped 17 eligible studies, of which 5 studies were on family planning/ contraception use and 3 studies on STD’s prevention, 3 studies on breast cancer and its screening, 3 studies on cervical cancer and its screening and 3 studies on social media exploitation among Pakistani women. Findings revealed that reliability and active participation in mass media has fetched many educational programs in improvement women psychological and physical health awareness. But at the same time excessive use of media caused troubles and negative impact on youth’s perception and attitude regarding women reproductive and sexual health resulting in obscenity leading to sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancy and miscarriages; which has inevitably affected women’s health. Therefore, effective strategies are need of an hour to ensure that mass media services should provide positive awareness and parents continual monitoring on their children networking websites will help community to refrain from occurrence of various adverse health consequences as well as from unwanted sexual and risky behaviors
Disciplinary Liability for Violation of Labor Legislation: the Context of Realization of the Right to Labour
Full text linkThe article substantiates the expediency of classifying labor law violations that are not crimes or misdemeanors of officials and employees in the field of public administration, to disciplinary offenses entailing non-material and material disciplinary liability, which must be provided for in the future Labor Code of Ukraine. This position is primarily due to the fact that a citizen (employee), being a general subject of a labor offense (as opposed to an employer as its special subject), is not endowed with official powers in public administration and cannot bear administrative (managerial) responsibility for committing an offense as detailed in the article